Great results achieves by Sadafco DHL TT Racing & Top UAE Moto entrant
German Moto rider Tim Trenker, he leads his marathon category - over 450 CC
after the first leg of 2005 UAE Desert Challenge.

The leg start from the luxury Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, the
capital of UAE towards to Moreeb hill with 369 km leg contains 282 km
special stage.

Trenker finishes the leg 27 minutes behind new overall leader Frenchman
Cyril Despres, who won Desert Challenge three times before. Trenker jump
from forty-seventh position on the start of the leg up to twelfth on the
end of the leg, passing many bikes affront of him before arrive to the
finish.

Trenker was happy one the end of the first leg and said: " I start the leg
very carefully and found problem with my new suspension setting, so when I
reach the service point, I change the setting to avoid up and down hill
problem, I did not push hard on my new engine that's not have enough test
before the event, and my performance getting better on the second half of
the special stage.

Dakar 2005 winner Frenchman Cyril Despres won the leg to lead the rally
ahead of his country home & teammate David Casteu by 7:15 min, world
championship leader Spaniard Marc Coma finishes third ahead of 2004 world
champion Norwegian Pal Andres Ullevalseter & the UAE's Khaled Khamis.